Improvement in paint-pencils or crayons



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W. J. HO-LTON & I. E. FIELD.

PAINT-PENCIL on CRAYON.

Patented June 12,1877,

PATENT DFFIoa WILLIAM J. HOLTON AND JAMES E.

FIELD, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAINT-PENCILS OR CRAYONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

[91,856, dated June l2, 1877; application filed April 16, 1877.

To all whomit may concern Be it known that we, WILLIAM J. IIOLTON and JAMES E. FIELD, of Milwaukee, Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, have invented a new and ter, and cannot be rubbed off a surface when applied without great difficulty; and, furthermore, it marks on a polished surface with equal ease to that of a rough surface, thus forming a perfect substitute for the marking pots and brushes now commonly in use, and

at the same time is easierand cleaner to handle as each pencil Will'have an outer Wrapping of tin-foil, B, or its-equivalent.

The component parts of our paint-pencil are: To make black pencils, take five and one-half pounds of tallow, one-quarter. pound of lamp- -b1ack,-one-qnarter pound of resin; to make blue or other colored pencils, take five and one-half pounds of fallow, one-quarter pound of Prussian blue or other color, one quarter pound of resin.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Apaintpencil compound, consisting of coloring matter, tallow, and resin, in the proportions' specified.

WILLIAM JAMES BOLTON. JAMES EDWIN FIELD.

Witnesses CHARLES LEwis POTTER, THoMAs HENRY MoRRIssEY. 

